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captious


 
  Overview  of  adj  captious 
 
  The  adj  captious  has  1  sense  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  captious,  faultfinding  --  (tending  to  find  and  call  attention  to  faults;  "a  captious  pedant";  "an  excessively  demanding  and  faultfinding  tutor") 
 
  Antonyms  of  adj  captious 
 
  1  sense  of  captious 
 
  Sense  1 
  captious,  faultfinding 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  critical)  ->  uncritical 
 
  Similarity  of  adj  captious 
 
  1  sense  of  captious 
 
  Sense  1 
  captious,  faultfinding 
  =>  critical  (vs.  uncritical) 
 
  Attributes  of  adj  captious 
 
 
  Familiarity  of  adj  captious 
 
  captious  used  as  an  adjective  is  very  rare  (polysemy  count  =  1) 
 
  Grep  of  adj  captious 
  captious 
 
  Overview  of  adj  captious 
 
  The  adj  captious  has  1  sense  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  captious,  faultfinding  --  (tending  to  find  and  call  attention  to  faults;  "a  captious  pedant";  "an  excessively  demanding  and  faultfinding  tutor") 



captious definition